A friend, knowing I was interested both in Berlin and in photography,
gave me this album of views of the city. It had been brought back by her
mother, who had been posted there with the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial
Service, the women's branch of the British Army) at the end of World War
II.

I immediately became
interested in the ephemeral figures caught going about their daily
lives, and in the hand-written comments, matter-of-fact yet poignant in
their precise descriptions of the destruction.

Brandenburger Tor

A note made on the page facing the
view of the Dom (see below)

Some of the writing, now very faded,
needed much work to make it readable